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Osmosis Lights Up the Market with 80% Run in Last 14 Days
Osmosis, a DEX that's part of the Cosmos ecosystem, is hitting all-time highs.
Layer 2s Showed Their Utility But TVL Growth Lagged
Layers 2s had a banner year in DeFi but their TVL still lags.
Balancer Launches Boosted Pools to Generate More Yield on Liquidity Deposits
Balancer is moving to generate more yield on Aave.
Index Coop Makes 2X ETH Leverage Token Cheaper with Move to Polygon
Index Coop has introduced a 2X leveraged token for Ether turning up the risk for traders.
Aave Latest DeFi Protocol to Delay Open Source and Lock Down V3 Code
Aave has followed Uniswap in delaying open source access to the code for its Version 3 upgrade in what's developing as a new trend in DeFi.
Sudoswap to Test a DEX for Swapping NFTs
A platform called Sudoswap plans to test an exchange for trading NFTs.
Markets Roundup: Ethereum Burn Rate Surges as DeFi Tokens Post Mixed Performance
This week's markets roundup reports on Ethereum's burn rate and the mixed performance of top tokens like Solana and Aave.
Trailblazer THORChain Accidentally Front-runs THORSwap Community in Latest Woe
THORChain's woes continued when its DEX accidentally front-runned its community.
There's Already $115M on Axie Infinity's New Automated Market Maker
Axie Infinity has launched an automated market maker called Katana for its sidechain Ronin, and it had 25,000 people interact with it less than 10 hours into its existence, according to Jiho Zirlin, co-founder of the team that built the…
Payments DEX Stellar First L1 to Offer Integrated Automated Market Making
Stellar has launched Protocol 18, integrating automated market maker functionality into its Layer 1 DEX.
Jam Session #8: DEXs
We’re chatting with the founders of today’s top AMMs about one of the core infrastructure pieces making up decentralized finance.
dYdX Drops Over $1B to Past Users in Airdrop
Margin trading protocol dYdX launched its native token with one of the largest distributions in decentralized finance. dYdX dropped 7.5% of its initial billion-strong token supply on Sept 8. At the current price of $11.12, those 75M tokens are worth…
Balancer’s New Kind of Pool Enters Battle for Crypto Liquidity
Automated portfolio manager Balancer introduced a new mechanism to improve capital efficiency for liquidity providers as it aims to take a larger bite of the interest-bearing token market. Balancer’s so-called metastable pools have a “nesting” feature, facilitating cheap swaps between…
DeFi ‘Revenue’ Has Stabilized in June Despite Token Sell-offs
It’s grim times for DeFi tokens but as prices plunge, protocol revenue remains stable. The DeFi Pulse Index, which tracks the performance of 14 key tokens including Uniswap and Maker, has skidded 31% in the last seven days and 6.5%…
Single Vault Wowskey ($CRV, $BAL, $SUSHI, $VISR)
Have you noticed the last few months just how rapidly the AMM and DEX space has been evolving? There has been an explosion of new products and innovations which are helping to move these products into a new era of…
dYdX Launches Layer 2 Perpetuals Powered by StarkWare
dYdX launched its cross-margined perpetuals product on a Layer 2 scaling solution powered by blockchain software developer StarkWare. The move is significant as it highlights how some of Ethereum’s most well-known DeFi projects are migrating to scaling solutions amid rising…
dYdX is Latest Major DeFi Project to Move to L2
Trading Ethereum-based assets is about to get cheaper. Decentralized exchange dYdX is moving its perpetual derivatives trading off the Ethereum main chain to a Layer 2 scaling solution. dYdX, the 7th largest DEX by volume, is moving its cross-margined perpetuals…
dYdX Closes Series B with $10M Investment
dYdX closed its Series B round with an investment of $10M led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital. Other investors include Wintermute, Hashed, GSR, SCP, Scalar Capital, Spartan Group, and RockTree Capital. The dYdX exchange, which focuses on derivatives…
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